Reports of Affiliated Organizations 



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COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE LONG ISLAND BIRD CLUB, TALKING 

 WITH CAPT, WM. SPRINKLE, AUDUBON WARDEN AT PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI. 



plans in view. It is therefore urged that an active interest may be shown to 

 increase our list of subscribers to at least i,ooo, and that our birds may be pro- 

 tected, their wanton destruction checked, and information distributed as to 

 the best methods of attracting them, while their economic value may be taught 

 to the landowner and farmer in every part of our Island. This great service The 

 Bird Club of Long Island is anxious to perform if means are forthcoming from 

 a larger membership to enable it to accomplish those benefits to the community 

 that its limited resources render impossible at this time. With the present 

 scarcity of labor, the necessity of bird-protection becomes more and more 

 evident, and this was never more apparent than at the present moment. 

 — Alice Greenough Townsend, Secretary, 



Bird Conservation Club (Maine). — Our Bangor Club, which was started 

 three years ago by a half-dozen ladies who were especially interested in bird- 

 study and conservation, grew rapidly for the first year, and during the last two 

 years has increased more slowly but steadily. Our membership is now 75. 



Our activities have not included great undertakings, but we know that we 

 have influenced the sentiment of our community. We have had printed some 



